Life Twice Given: An Unlikely Sacrifice At 16 weeks, Logan Hampson fell mysteriously ill. Four years later, his baby sister, Alyson, developed the same symptoms. Discover the true story of what a mother and father sacrificed for their children. By Nicholas Hune-Brown [pic] Photography: Frances Juriansz When Lynn and Jason Hampson first saw the hint of yellow in their four-month-old son’s eyes in the winter of 2008, they didn’t think too much of it. The young parents assumed it was jaundice, a common illness that would pass with a little time under the hospital lamps. Instead, the colour spread.
Through the hospital and Ms. Martinez’s eyes Kevin neglected the patient; leaving the patient in the gurney for an unacceptable duration of time for another staff member to move. However, According to Nurse Kevin the reason behind not moving the patient from the gurney to the bed is due to Nurse Kevin’s on-going back issues that have been in existence since he began working for the hospital. The patient that was to be moved was also extremely large and heavy. As we all know typical duties of a nurse on a unit in most hospitals may sometime require physical exertion of one’s body. With that being said, Nurse Kevin seemed to be able to perform most other physical duties excluding moving a patient from a gurney to a bed.
Yates had mental instability during the time she killed her children, and after the birth of her fifth child is when she experienced postpartum depression. After she was in prison, professionals diagnosed her with insanity and postpartum depression. Genetics also played a part since there was a history of mental illness in her family. After the death of her father, she stopped doing everything she normally would do that would take care of her and her kids and Yates had become even more depressed. Yates had not realized how much mental illness there was in her
In 1996 a pregnant woman, Darlene Brown, was admitted to Ingalls Memorial Hospital by her caring physician, Dr. Walsh. Brown had consented to have a cystoscopy and have a urethral mass removed. Brown had also been informed that she would lose blood during the operation, but had not discussed with her Doctor that she was a Jehovah's Witness and that blood transfusions are not part of her belief system. During the operation she lost more blood than anticipated and as result her blood hemoglobin level dropped below normal levels. Her low hemoglobin level put her and her unborn baby at high risk of death.
These patients, many of whom were vulnerable and unable to convey their mistreatment to others outside of the hospital such as the Police, Social Services or the Care Quality Commission (CQC). One senior nurse reported his concerns to the Castlebeck View management then with the South Gloucestershire Adult Safeguarding Team and finally the CQC but his complaint was not taken up by any organization. Later the same nurse decided to highlight the ongoing abuse to the BBC who began an undercover investigation/exposé at the hospital using a reporter and hidden cameras to record the events. The undercover footage showed that the staff would often assault and even use chairs to restrain patients. One patient was repeatedly poked in the eyes.
I walked to my patient’s room and saw the patient breathing with accessory muscles and said she didn’t know what was wrong but didn’t feel well. I listened to her lungs and found she now had crackles in all lobes of the lungs. The nurse who answered her call light was her first year as a Registered Nurse. The nurse did not listen to her lungs had only taken vitals. One extra step during an assessment saved that patients life.
As a nurse with many years of experience in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Nephrology/Dialysis, I have had much experience with death and dying. It was never so evident as in the long term illness of my mother. My father and sister were unable to understand the situation as I did with my professional experience. Even my and the doctor’s explanations weren’t enough for them to realize that the course my father chose for my mother was a long and uncomfortable one. This, in turn, was a learning experience for me.
Maria Worrall aged 78years had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and had suffered several falls; she had ended up bed bound and admitted to hospital. Whilst at hospital it was agreed that Maria would need to go into a nursing home as she was no longer able to do anything for herself and needed to be cared for. Jane Worrall cared for her mother for a little while she would do all the dressing, bathing and cooking. Jane fell pregnant and wasn’t able to manage the care her mother needed anymore so she had looked at several homes and liked the look of ash court and from the ratings on the internet from the CQC were giving an excellent
At the age of 12, Nai was removed from her family of seven siblings and placed in a foster home. At the time, Nai (the second oldest child) and her older sister were caring for their younger brothers and sisters as her parents were usually absent. Being placed in foster care was extremely difficult for the siblings, who were separated and sent to live in different counties. Nai had become used to serving as caretaker for her younger siblings, and spent the first couple of years in foster care worrying about her brothers and sisters. Visitation opportunities together were rare, and over time Nai became resentful of and disappointed in her parents for being unable to “put the family back together again.” She had a very difficult time dealing
Without the understanding that the world is not a perfect place, it becomes near impossible to deal with the negative and preserver. In “I Am Capable of More Than I Think I Am” author Gregg Rogers talks about how he and his wife struggled to deal with the news of finding out their unborn daughter had Down syndrome. When Rogers writes, “for months I was terrified. My wife, Lucy, and I now refer to the period of time leading up to my daughter’s birth as “The Pit.” We barely spoke to each other because we didn’t know what to say. We simply suffered through each day, together, but feeling terribly alone” he is illustrating how fear can become paralyzing (par.